Doctor Aborted Newborn Babies & Killed Them w/ Scissors in the Sixth, Seventh, & Eighth Months of Pregnancy... (663 hits)
Although Dr. Gosnell didn't advertise, word got around; women came from ACROSS the city, state and region for illegal late-term abortions...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An African American doctor whose abortion clinic was described as a filthy, foul-smelling "house of horrors" that was overlooked by regulators for years was charged Wednesday with murder, accused of delivering seven babies alive and then using scissors to kill them. Dr. Kermit Gosnell was also charged with murder in the death of a woman who suffered an overdose of painkillers while awaiting an abortion.
Prosecutors also said Dr. Kermit Gosnell made MILLIONS of dollars over three decades performing thousands of dangerous abortions, many of them illegal late-term procedures. His clinic had no trained nurses or medical staff other than Gosnell, a family physician not certified in obstetrics or gynecology, prosecutors said.
He "induced labor, forced the live birth of viable babies in the sixth, seventh, eighth month of pregnancy and then killed those babies by cutting into the back of the neck with scissors and severing their spinal cord," District Attorney Seth Williams said. Gosnell referred to it as "snipping," prosecutors said. At least two women died from the procedures, while scores more suffered perforated bowels, cervixes and uteruses, authorities said.
Prosecutors estimated Gosnell ended HUNDREDS of pregnancies by cutting the spinal cords, but they said they couldn't prosecute more cases because he destroyed files. "These killings became so routine that no one could put an exact number on them," the grand jury report said. "They were considered 'standard procedure.'" ...
Authorities raided Gosnell's clinic early last year in search of drug violations and stumbled upon "a house of horrors," Williams said. Bags and bottles holding aborted fetuses "were scattered throughout the building," the district attorney said. "There were jars, lining shelves, with severed feet that he kept for no medical purpose." ...
..."The state's reluctance to investigate, under several administrations, may stem partly from the sensitivity of the abortion debate, District Attorney Seth Williams said. Nonetheless, he called Gosnell's conduct a clear case of murder."...
"A doctor who with scissors cuts into the necks, severing the spinal cords of living, breathing babies who would survive with proper medical attention commits murder under the law," he said. "Regardless of one's feelings about abortion, whatever one's beliefs, that is the law." ...
